From the Field: Nikki Garret
Niki Garrett is a PhD candidate from the University of Minnesota. She was awarded a Leakey Foundation research grant in the fall of 2013 for her project entitled “Compound specific paleoecology of Early Miocene hominoids from East Africa.” Here is a brief description of her research followed by a report from the field.
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Grandmothers and the evolution of pair bonds
If you are in a special relationship with another person, thank grandma - not just yours, but all grandmothers since humans evolved.
Modern human dispersal on the southern plain of Eastern Europe
John Hoffecker
John Hoffecker of the University of Colorado has been awarded 13 grants from The Leakey Foundation for his research at various sites in Eastern Europe. He has been awarded three for work at Shlyakh, an open-air Paleolithic site located in the Volgograd region of Russia. The most recent Leakey grant for this site was awarded in the spring
Tooth eruption and life history in living chimpanzees
Tanya Smith (R) and co-PI Zarin Machanda (L)
Tanya Smith, Associate Professor at Harvard was awarded a Leakey Foundation research grant in the spring of 2012 for her project entitled “Tooth eruption and life history in living chimpanzees.”
Tanya Smith and her team study dental development patterns in chimpanzees in order to better understand the evolution of human development. Previous